at NY Public Library. Nothing much got settled; Pope didn't resign. Yet. There's always tomorrow.. Closing quip:
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For the most part, the audience seemed to be with Hitchens -- but there was some deviation from his side, most often when the subject of the Iraq war, of which Hitchens is a prominent and frequent supporter, came up. Sharpton scored some points by cracking, "You are a man of faith, because any man that still to this day believes that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has more faith than any religious person I know." A New York City audience couldn't help loving that one.

-- Alex Koppelman


[link|http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/05/08/hitchens_sharpton/index.html?source=newsletter| Salon].